Word Finder - safe

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A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.

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A condom.

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A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects.

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A safety bicycle.

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To make something safe.

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Not in danger; out of harm's reach.

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You’ll be safe here.

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Free from risk.

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It’s safe to eat this.

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• harmless
• riskless

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Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.

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We have to find a safe spot, where we can hide out until this is over.

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When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.

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The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.

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Properly secured.

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The documents are safe.

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• secure

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(used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.

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dishwasher-safe

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Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.

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• cool
• wicked

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Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.

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• easy-going
• lenient
• merciful
• tolerant

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Reliable; trusty.

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• trustworthy

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Cautious.

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Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.

She felt safe and secure.

She was safe again.

She'd better find a safe place until they arrived.

He lifted the nest gently and put it in a safe place in the forks of the tree.

Their hiding place was safe for the present.

She urged her mount a safe distance away, motioning for Jonathan to follow.

But they're safe, Dusty, I promise.

Something about the man made her feel safe, and the warm electricity in her body made her sleepy.

Hopefully her family would be in the restaurant now – safe from any flooding on the highway.

I feel safe with you, Jule, and it terrifies me.

She snuggled into his arms and felt safe for the first time since the accident.

As soon as he trotted out upon the surface of the river he found himself safe from pursuit, and Zeb was already running across the water toward Dorothy.

And they did not feel themselves safe until they were once more in Boston.

But everyone here is safe and uninjured.

They drew up closer to the fire and felt thankful that they were safe from the raging storm.

We'll be safe here, and the moisture in the cave will keep the dust down.

You're as safe with the Reverend as with your own mother if that's what you're worried about.

If I'm not back in twenty minutes, go someplace safe and call the police, okay? she said, placing it on the dashboard.

She thought of how she'd felt safe with Jule during their brief encounter.

They're at the safe house off Biscayne.

When "human testing" is done almost immediately, but within the safe confines of a CPU.

By the time he set her down safe and dry on the other side, her hands were going numb and her shoulders were aching.

What was to be done with such a princess, whether she were to be nourished in one's bosom, above all whether it could be advisable or safe to try any diplomatic tricks upon such a lady, Knollys left for the minister to judge.

In cultivated districts cattle, sheep, and even human inhabitants are never safe from his nocturnal ravages.

It is the only safe port easily accessible to large vessels for over 1000 m., between Sfax in Tunisia and Alexandria, for, although there is safe and deep anchorage in the recess of the Gulf of Bomba, the entrance is rocky and difficult.

But all the more eagerly did he take advantage of Wallis's loose calumny to strike where he felt himself safe.

Henry saw that, while this state of things lasted, the population could never be safe, and began the construction of fortresses and walled towns.

To make safe exposed pin nails in vinyl flooring of upstairs bathroom.

He was hurt" she rushed on, not wanting to admit how, "but he's safe for now."

It was probably at the time when a desire for revenge on her calumniatress made her think the opportunity good and safe for discharge of such a two-edged dart at the countess and the queen that Mary wrote, but abstained from despatching, the famous and terrible letter in which, with many gracious excuses and professions of regret and attachment, she transmits to Elizabeth a full and vivid report of the hideous gossip retailed by Bess of Hardwick regarding her character and person at a time when the reporter of these abominations was on friendly terms with her husband's royal charge.

Boniface at length put him in prison for safe keeping; he died in a monastic cell in the castle of Fumone near Anagni on the 19th of May 1296.

But the greatest improvement affecting transportation is the construction of a safe and deep harbour.

Certain agents in Canada having in 1864 intimated that they were empowered to treat for peace, Lincoln, through Greeley, tendered them safe conduct to Washington.

As they now knew that they could find protection without looking to a superior, they had less temptation to give up their independence, and many of them settled in the towns where they could be safe and free.

By the 16th of March 1866 the Austrian war preparations were so far advanced that Count Mensdorff thought it safe to send an ultimatum to Prussia and, at the same time, a circular note to the princes declaring that, in the event of an evasive reply, Austria would move in the diet for the mobilization of the federal forces.

Clearly Prussia meant war, and the Italiar government thought it safe to sign, on the 8th of April 1866,

It is the only port of Senegal affording safe anchorage for the largest ships.

The harbour is good and safe, though difficult of access.

Alternately victorious and defeated, spared by the Syracusans on whose mercy he cast himself as a suppliant (451), sent to be safe at Corinth, he came back to Sicily only to form greater plans than before.

Apparently most of the fighting was finished by the fifth year of his reign; in his mortuary temple at Thebes he set up a stela of that date recording a great victory over the Libyan immigrants and invaders, which rendered the much harried land of Egypt safe.

The old canal had long fallen into decay, and the necessity of a safe channel between Alexandria and the Nile was much felt.

There is a harbour, only accessible to small vessels; the roadstead outside is safe and has deep water a mile to the east of the fortress.

On the north side of the island is the bay of Naoussa (Naussa) or Agoussa, forming a safe and roomy harbour.

The neighbourhood is agreeable, and the Cardigan Bay shore is shelving and suitable for safe bathing.

Since 1877, when the Quetta agency was founded, the freedom of the pass from plundering bands of Baluch marauders (chiefly Marris) has been secured, and it is now as safe as any pass in Scotland.

In some European and other countries, however, the safe working stresses of timber used for constructional purposes are defined.

It was Austria which had given trouble in his time; and if her pride were curbed, he fancied that Prussia at least would be safe.

But in the case of a pupil who had passed through a good secondary school it would be as safe to rely for supplementary information under this head on the testimony of his teachers, as it is to rely on their evidence with regard to the fundamental and all-important element on which no examina- .tion supplies direct information - personal character.

Travelling by the high roads during his reign was comparatively safe; although it must be added that the excessive exactions of dues and customs very seriously damaged the external trade.

Meantime the system attacked was safe for other thirteen years.